The Jews
...Years ago, my aunt developed mesothelioma. She and her husband did not have money for medical care. It was a Jewish hospital that took her in, and helped her through her last days free of charge.
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Categories:
admirals, religion,
Form: Prose
Storm In a Butterfly House
...It rained for 3 days,
drenching torrents plunged down
as if a dam had breached.
There was some local flooding
but by and large only minor damage
a lot of litter and flotsam though
‘sky wreckage...
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Categories:
admirals, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Butterflies
...They slip in unnoticed
just below the burning rays of the sun solstice
lighting on the last flowers of summer bare,
sweet nectar wafting in the heavy laden air,
colors brilliant, glowing, c...
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Categories:
admirals, butterfly, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Monoku Monday - Aug 2021
..."Bits and Pieces III" Posted 1 Aug 2021
Pun Ishment
bread is like the sun it rises in the yeast and it sets in the waist
English Class
epitome of irony...
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Categories:
admirals, humor,
Form: Monoku
Os Ted Briggs
...Floating, adrift in icy water; like discarded driftwood
(his Commander, Warrand, bravely stepped aside to let him pass)
the sole survivor so thought Ted; of the proud and mighty Hood.
Then came Bi...
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Categories:
admirals, death,
Form: Rhyme
Storm In a Butterfly House
...Wings in puddles.
There must have been a leak,
and in the sky nothing fly’s
but a crippled gale,
it limps now, yet howls still
from the far side of lost town.
Wind-drones moan in bare trees
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Categories:
admirals, poetry,
Form: Free verse
To Our Winged Admirals
...Oh, smile you devious angels, smile
Smile like the devil never touched your sins
Wash your guilt and pleasures with
Your name, your brand, your kin
Cross your arms and squint your eyes
Look down...
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Categories:
admirals, 12th grade, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Lyric
If Ever I Had a Country : Xlvi and Xlvii
...IF ever I had a country : XLVI - XLVII
XLVI
IF ever I had in Andromeda a country
And if ever by rights I were the Chief Collision-Conglomerate Six-Star Plenipotentiary
I'd moot and exec...
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Categories:
admirals, allegory, destiny, future, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Crossing the T
...In a battleship war
Admirals looked for advantage
The best position be in
Is to cross the T
When the enemy is inline
Steaming towards you
Your battleships should be
In front of the first e...
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Categories:
admirals, war,
Form: Free verse
Political Short-Circuits
...A problem with fundamentalist short-circuits
is their Left-dominant tendencies
over RightBrain polypathic-polyphonic resonant feelings.
Fundamentalism shrinks Left-RightBrain Both-And
WinWin ec...
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Categories:
admirals, culture, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Chasms Shine Inside Pupils Captured
...in mass-produced photographs leaking
oils and plastics into oceans eternally
churning secret species speaking sonar
beyond the corridor of human tongues
awaiting arrivals admirals of slaughter ...
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Categories:
admirals, dark, imagination, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Born To the Sea
...Born to the sea
Mind of water, flowing thoughts;
The currents beneath your words could change us all.
River heart, born to the sea;
The solace we seek waves to you and to me.
Join me on ...
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Categories:
admirals, adventure, devotion, drink, people,
Form: I do not know?
Kaleidoscope of Butterflies
...Like petite Picasso's on the wing
little paintings flying by
A prima ballerina dancing in the sky.
Butterflies are beauty on the wing.
they personify natures perplexity to please
pretty as...
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Categories:
admirals, fun,
Form: Free verse
Butterflies
...In summer my garden comes alive
as graceful butterflies make it home.
Peacocks with vivid colours flit
from blossom to blossom
Busily working gathering nectar
pollinating as they go on to next...
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Categories:
admirals, butterfly, flower,
Form: Personification
Private Romeo
...Romeo Jaxx had a friend for a fool
So he never thought "Baby's in love."
He fought for his rights
and he slept through your dreams
With his self-centred wolverine paralysed
Drove out of the c...
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Categories:
admirals, america, journey, lost, military,
Form: Ballad
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